Bill Text: NY A02370 | 2015-2016 | General Assembly | Amended

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Bill Title: Authorizes the county of Dutchess to regulate the registration and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)

Status: (Passed) 2016-08-31 - signed chap.287 [A02370 Detail]

Download: New_York-2015-A02370-Amended.html

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                STATE OF NEW YORK
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                                         2370--B
                               2015-2016 Regular Sessions
                   IN ASSEMBLY
                                    January 16, 2015
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        Introduced  by  M.  of  A.  BARRETT,  SKARTADOS, CAHILL -- read once and
          referred  to  the  Committee  on  Local   Governments   --   committee
          discharged, bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended and recommitted
          to said committee -- recommitted to the Committee on Local Governments
          in  accordance  with  Assembly Rule 3, sec. 2 -- committee discharged,
          bill amended, ordered reprinted as amended  and  recommitted  to  said
          committee
        AN  ACT  to  amend the general municipal law and the vehicle and traffic
          law, in relation to authorizing the county of Dutchess to regulate the
          registration and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and  livery  vehi-
          cles
          The  People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
        bly, do enact as follows:
     1    Section 1. Subdivision 1 of section 181 of the general municipal  law,
     2  as  amended  by  chapter  498 of the laws of 2015, is amended to read as
     3  follows:
     4    1. The registration and licensing of taxicabs and may limit the number
     5  of taxicabs to be licensed and the county of Westchester may adopt ordi-
     6  nances regulating the registration and licensing of taxicabs and  limou-
     7  sines  and may limit the number to be licensed; the county of Nassau may
     8  adopt ordinances regulating the registration of taxicabs and limousines;
     9  and the county of Suffolk may adopt local laws or ordinances  regulating
    10  the  registration  of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles; and the
    11  county of Rockland may adopt local laws  or  ordinances  regulating  the
    12  registration  and licensing of taxicabs, limousines, and livery vehicles
    13  and may limit the number to be licensed; and the county of Dutchess  may
    14  adopt local laws or ordinances regulating the registration and licensing
    15  of taxicabs, limousines and livery vehicles.
    16    §  2.  Paragraph  b of subdivision 1 of section 498 of the vehicle and
    17  traffic law, as separately amended by chapters 382 and 385 of  the  laws
    18  of 2012, is amended to read as follows:
         EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
                              [ ] is old law to be omitted.
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